Southeast of the present town of New Berne and in Township eighteen and Range six is a noted prairie marked on the maps as Walker's Prairie and said to have been so called for Tandy Walker and not far from that prairie on the west side of it Tandy Walker died in about 1842. His grave is there till this day.

Tandy Walker’s third child was Tandy 2ND was in St. Stephens, Alabama in 1803. His wife Mary Mayes of Virginia was a Methodist of the Tombigbee circuit.

Their daughter Sarah Newstep was born at St. Stephens and baptized there in 1815. (Cf. West’s History of Methodism in Alabama).

Tandy was an Indian trader and scout and served under General Claiborne. In 1814 Tandy was ordered to scout ahead of the Mississippi Volunteers in the Creek Indian country, he was ambushed and wounded and on this account he was awarded a pension in 1838. He died in 1843 and was buried on the edge of what is known as Walkers Prairie, near Newbern, Alabama.

Please also note there is another Colonel Tandy Walker of the C.S.A. who led a regiment of Choctaw out of Scullyville in the Civil War so far there is no link to the Walkers in Virginia.----